Export and import capability for nodequeue
Benjamin Melançon - February 12, 2009 - 04:43
| Project: | Nodequeue |
| Version: | 6.x-2.x-dev |
| Component: | Code |
| Category: | feature request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | active |
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Description
For power users of Drupal being able to export and import nodequeues would be great. Presumably the same capability could be used under the hood for a queue "clone" capability.
(It seems there are parts of the Nodequeue webservice proposal that may overlap?)
I'm looking at Views for a model of export and import functionality. Guidance always welcome.
benjamin, Agaric Design Collective
#1
I've abstracted the ability to do export/import into a library as part of the ctools package. I'm not sure if adding reliance on ctools is a good idea or not.
Also, while doing the export/import trick woudl be *very* valuable, it does add some burdensome restrictions -- most notably that you must always load all queues any time you need to sort them; you can no longer rely on pagers (or at least the default pager) and it can become a little more memory intensive.
But it sure is handy for deployment.
#2
Which aspects of a queue would you export? The queue definition? All the subqueues and the nids?
I'll check out merlinofchaos's ctools import/export functionality. We could probably make import/export an optional feature with that as a dependency if you're going to use it.
#3
queue definition
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#4
Just for documentation, the way that I add nodequeue in hook_update_N() is:
<?php
// Add simple patterns nodequeue.
$queue = array(
'title' => 'my queue',
'size' => 0,
'reverse' => 0,
'roles' => array(),
'types' => array('story'),
'i18n' => 1,
'show_in_links' => FALSE,
'show_in_tab' => TRUE,
'show_in_ui' => TRUE,
'subqueues' => array(),
'add_subqueue' => array('my queue'),
'new' => TRUE,
);
$queue = (object) $queue;
$qid = nodequeue_save(&$queue);
?>
#5
Thanks Amitaibu. In Drupal 5 this is almost the same;
<?php
function custom_update_N() {
$ret = array();
if (!function_exists('nodequeue_save')) {
$ret[] = array('success' => FALSE, 'query' => 'Enable nodequeue module and re-run custom update N');
return $ret;
}
// From drupal.org/node/373174#comment-1678136
$queue = new stdClass();
$queue->title = 'RS featured video';
$queue->subqueue_title = '';
$queue->size = 1;
$queue->link = 'feature this video on the homepage';
$queue->link_remove = NULL;
$queue->owner = 'nodequeue';
$queue->show_in_links = 0;
$queue->show_in_tab = 1;
$queue->show_in_ui = 1;
$queue->reverse = 0;
$queue->reference = 0;
nodequeue_save($queue);
$ret[] = array('success' => TRUE, 'query' => 'Saved RS Featured video nodequeue');
return $ret;
}
?>
#6
integration with the features module?